Crashes when torrenting to an SMB-mounted volume

[twic]

I'm using 1.50 on OS X 10.4.11, fully Software Updated and recently rebooted. I have a linux fileserver on my home network, and i'm mounting a directory on it over SMB. I keep the torrent files in that directory, and having the downloaded files stored there too. Initally, everything works fine, but then at some point, all my torrents (downloading and seeding) drop to zero speed. If i then try to do anything via the GUI (for instance, pausing all torrents), Transmission crashes. There''s no CrashReporter log (which i think means Transmission is exiting via abort(), which doesn't generate a crash log on 10.4), but this apears in the console log:

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/Users/mitchell/Desktop/Transmission_1.5x/libtransmission/trevent.c:385: failed assertion `session->events != NULL'

Restarting Transmission then involves re-checking all the downloaded files, which for~1 GB of files on a network volume is not fun.

After it restarts, everything seems to go okay - i'm back to normal up/download speeds on the torrents once they're done re-checking. Until the next time it locks up, that is. That takes about ten minutes.

It also seems to be the case that Transmission intermittently becomes unresponsive - the GUI stops updating, and i get the spinning rainbow ball when i mouse over it - and after a few minutes like that, it crashes spontaneously. Transmission keeps using some CPU (1-10%) during the unresponsive episodes, so i don't think it's in either a hang or an infinite loop. I don't really know what's going on there.

I've tried a nightly build, but it won't run on 10.4.

So, any advice? Does anyone else have this problem? If so, should i file a bug report? Is there some way i can collect more information about what's happening?

Obvious questions i might be asked are (a) what happens if i mount over appletalk or NFS instead and (b) why i don't run the client on the linux box instead. The answer is that the linux box is in fact a network-attached storage unit, which doesn't seem to do appletalk or NFS properly, and on which i don't have the ability to run arbitrary programs. At least not yet - a medium-term goal is to get it opened up, upgrade the netatalk daemon, and install a CLI version of Transmission.

Thanks,
tom

[twic]

Might be related to this:

http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... f=4&t=6789

[twic]

Sound pretty much exactly like this:

http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... f=4&t=6464

[teeruku]

I am having the same issue. read both the posts that were mentioned but no solution given. any help please